Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York. She was raised by a loving mother, Margaret Livingston Cady and a wise father Daniel Cady. She also had many other siblings Margaret Cady, Harriot Cady and Eleazar Cady. When Elizabeth was attending school she first attended Johnston Academy where she took advanced classes in maths, science, and other languages. She then transferred to Emma Willard's Troy Seminary, which was therefore known to have a better education for women. It then helped Elizabeth to become an outstanding writer, orator and freethinker of her time. When Elizabeth was at the age of eleven years, her only brother, who was mostly adored by her father, sadly passed away. The words her father instantly spoke were "Oh my daughter, I wish you were a boy." Those few words changed Elizabeth's life that day. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and later on leading figure of the early women's movement. In 1840 Elizabeth married the lawyer, Henry Bewster Stanton. The couple both became active members of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Later that year, Stanton and Lucretia Mott, travelled to London as delegates to the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Both women were furious when they, like the British women at the convention, were refused permission to speak at the meeting. Stanton later recalled: "We resolved to hold a convention as soon as we returned home, and form a society to advocate the rights of women. "However, it was not until 1848 that Stanton and Lucretia Mott organised the Women's Rights
Convention at Seneca Falls. Stanton's resolution that it was "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise" was passed, and this became the focus of the group's campaign over the next few years. In 1866 Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone established the American Equal Rights Association. The following year, the organisation became active in Kansas where Negro suffrage and woman suffrage were to be decided by popular vote. However, both ideas were rejected at the polls. In 1868 Stanton and Susan B. Anthony established the political
weekly, The Revolution, and the following year the two women formed a new organisation, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). The organisation condemned the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments as blatant injustices to women. The NWSA also advocated easier divorce and an end to discrimination in employment and pay.
Convention at Seneca Falls. Stanton's resolution that it was "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise" was passed, and this became the focus of the group's campaign over the next few years. In 1866 Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone established the American Equal Rights Association. The following year, the organisation became active in Kansas where Negro suffrage and woman suffrage were to be decided by popular vote. However, both ideas were rejected at the polls. In 1868 Stanton and Susan B. Anthony established the political
weekly, The Revolution, and the following year the two women formed a new organisation, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). The organisation condemned the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments as blatant injustices to women. The NWSA also advocated easier divorce and an end to discrimination in employment and pay.